Big Man Bakes

Cupcake baker is probably the last career you’d imagine for Chip Brown. A towering 6 feet 5 inches, Brown has the physique of a football star–and the culinary sensibility of a pastry chef. Or your elderly aunt. A New York City native, Brown baked cakes for co-workers and for the catering business he started while working in politics, medicine, programming and web start-ups. That is, until he finally decided to quit his day job and start his own bakery.